Professor Calvel’s Croissant Dough

Preparation info
  • Makes 1.12 kg , enough for

    30-40

    pastries
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pastry Perfection

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2014

  • About

The late Raymond Calvel, the father of modern French breadmaking, wrote about croissants in his second book, Le Gout du Pain (The Flavour of Bread). This recipe is modified from his in that I’ve used whole milk instead of dried milk because whole milk contributes a fresher taste to the croissants and I have not added ascorbic acid (vitamin C).